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I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

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Hot E. coli summer

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wrote about Van Hollen’s trip, and why it’s an important (and successful) assertion of congressional power. Hope to see more of this from Ds. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/van-hollen...

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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Whew! Sen Chuck Grassley’s town hall should be a wake-up call for Trump & Republicans. Voters want Kilmar García brought home — and they’re pissed Trump’s thumbing his nose at a Supreme Court ruling. This isn’t “tough on crime,” it’s lawless, un-American trash — and folks know it. This is Iowa!

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This is positively Soviet. Vera is a nonprofit organization that funds lawyers for indigent people. The government sought to embed people there like political commissars, and only pulled back when they found out Vera's federal grants had already been cut. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

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The alarm bells could not ring any louder.

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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A beaver (or muskrat?) photobombs an egret. Minnesota, April 2025. #birds

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New: Someone hacked audio-enabled crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley over the weekend to upload voices that sound like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. "They say money can't buy happiness…I guess that's true. God knows I've tried," said one button hacked to sound like Musk. "F--k I'm so alone."

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NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

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Hate-watching the dick-shaped rocket launch. The disconnect of these women talking about "making history" in female empowerment and racial "justice" while blasting off on some space cosplay funded by a dictator-supporting billionaire is really something.

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In the name of reducing fentanyl overdoses, Trump has gone to the extreme—levied tariffs, listed cartels as terrorist groups, and weighed drone strikes in Mexico. But these proclamations gloss over a glaring reality: The admin is decimating funding for treatment and overdose prevention programs.

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Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

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Last I checked Trump had an EO prohibiting antisemitism in his Federal govt. Pimping a guy who stans Hitler would seem to violate the EO but maybe I'm misunderstanding how it all works.

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Written by a goddamned editorial assistant (for three years?) plucked straight out of Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller

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So we have the Times hiring Daily Caller reporters to profile Real America's Voice reporters. There are so many examples of major outlets elevating people from the right and relatively few instances of them doing this with any notably progressive voices

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As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.

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Reporting side effects of animal medicines helps keep pets, livestock - and even their owners - safer🐾 The EMA and the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe are working to improve veterinary medicine safety. Learn more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/partners-... #SafeMedicines #HealthyAnimals

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If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

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Buried within one of Trump’s executive orders was a shady pull back on notice-and-comment rulemaking. Essentially: the public would not be given the opportunity to comment on new rules, thereby helping the president fast-track any deregulation in the future.

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In a vomit-inducing news cycle, this one goes to 11. Can someone fire up the wood-chipper again, please

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Is there really any other option right now, aside from the military finding the fortitude to uphold their oath? We’re slip slidin’ into serious fascism here, folks.

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Jack White, April 8, 2025, Palace Theater, St. Paul, MN 🔥

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I wanted to share this news from over the weekend: During Senate Republicans' all night voting marathon on their billionaire bailout, I offered an amendment to protect Medicaid. It didn't pass, but 3 Republicans voted for it. Here's why that's important:

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Trump & his thugs are arguing that because Garcia is no longer in their custody, they can't effectuate his return If the SC rules in favor, it will allow them to legally disappear people Is Garcia even alive? Where is the proof of life? Demand that Dems & media start asking. This is full-on Nazi

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One guy doing all this, with Congress just sitting there. Honestly, the only reason we're all still alive at this point, despite that same guy having the ability to launch enough nukes to end life of earth on a whim, is because he's actually scared of them, like stairs or sharks or marine batteries.

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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

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St. Paul, MN 4-6-25 #birds

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“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

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if you were looking for signs that Jeff Bezos's obeisance to Trump has bled over into newsroom coverage it would probably look something like this article getting top billing over the story of 3-5 million people marching yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

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